Couple engaged after Metro 'Rush-Hour Crush' marriage proposal

A man is now engaged to his girlfriend after she accepted his proposal on Metro's 'Rush-Hour Crush'.

Gavin Smith, 32, aka 'Tall Rugby Player' used the free newspaper's daily feature - in which readers typically write in to announce their commute crushes - to declare his love for Rebecca Church on Friday (April 19).

"I can't imagine my life without you," he said. "I love you more every day. Every time we look at each other, I see the other half of me staring back.

"The story of our love is just beginning. Let's write our own ending. Will you marry me?"

Church, 33, read the message next to her boyfriend at Shepherd's Bush station in west London, and accepted when Smith brought out an engagement ring.

"By the time I got to the end, I was in tears," she recalled.

Smith admitted: "I thought something would happen to mess it up.

"But it went very smoothly and it's amazing she said 'yes'."

The engaged couple - who first met last November when Smith wrote in to 'Rush-Hour Crush' to ask Church out - will be marrying next year.